Poptimists Year End Poll 2006: Video Of The Year

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The poll brings us now to the VIDEO of the year, and after some snuffling around on YouTube I have links for all our six nominees.

Fergie - "Fergalicious": Fergie and Will.I.Am in a Willy Wonka fantasia.
Christina Aguilera - "Ain't No Other Man": Xtina living out her 40s starlet dreams.
Bouncy - "Ring The Alarm": Angry Bouncy in an interrogation cell.
OK Go - "Here It Goes Again": Power-poppers on running machines.
Camera Obscura - "Hey Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken": Catalogue couple dance through department store.
Infernal - "From Paris To Berlin": Disco inside a compuler.

Go and look at them if you like, and tick below.

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You can still vote in the previous polls, and indeed nominate in the categories we haven't polled yet. As ever, votes based on your nominations: both Fergie singles were mentioned more than once, and I picked only one for space reasons - if Fergie humping a horse guard was your vision of 2006, my humble apologies.

Comments

Re: Also

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I really like the 'Deja Vu' mentalism as well, that mad Kate Bush-esque dancing! Jay-Z as STATIC PIVOT! But yeah 'Ring The Alarm' beats it.

Favourite bit of 'Ring The Alarm' video: the softer, sadder middle eight, atonal harmonies providing the DISJOINT, Beyoncé sitting on the sofa and gazing into the middle distance, waves crashing behind her, and you SEE HER EYES GLISTEN WITH TEARS.

Re: Also

[koganbot]

Was a dead heat between "Alarm" and "Fergalicious"; finally went for the latter because for once a bright-colored carnivalesque video had a song with bright-colored carnivalesque content, and a master of ceremonies.

Re: Also

[koganbot]

OK, what's with Beyoncé applying lipstick at the end, mouth in huge close-up, then ending on a smile? Seems like a non sequitur, yet also is totally right. As if to say, "I've won." But won what? Had her cake and ate it to? Has her nutso breakout, firestorm tantrum, yet remains Ms. Stylish anyway?

(That's what's going on in the music, too: the maintenance of style above and beyond the conflagration. To the detriment of the music, I'd say. "Survivor" wasn't as frenzied or fierce, but the anguish and spite were more genuinely full-blooded.)

Re: Also

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I agree, it's a fantastic scene but doesn't seem to fit with the storyline. It reminds of war paint though, almost like she's stated her intentions and is now going to act on them, and if you thought she was scary when she was raging wait til you see her when she's calm and deliberate.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

...everything you own in a box to the left.